different between agriculture vs agro

English

Wikiversity

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agricultura, from ager (“field”) + cultura (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt??/

Noun

agriculture (plural agricultures)

1. The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock

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Translations

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French

Etymology

From agri- +? culture, or borrowed from Latin agricultura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??i.kyl.ty?/

Noun

agriculture f (plural agricultures)

1. agriculture

Related terms

Further reading

• “agriculture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• agriculteur

Middle French

Noun

agriculture f (uncountable)

1. agriculture

English

Alternative forms

• aggro

Etymology

From aggro, by shortening

Pronunciation

Adjective

agro (comparative more agro, superlative most agro)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, slang) angry

Anagrams

• Argo, Garo, Goar, Gora, Rago, goar, gora

Esperanto

Noun

agro (accusative singular agron, plural agroj, accusative plural agrojn)

1. field, piece of arable land

Derived terms

• agrara (“agrarian”)
• agraro (“agricultural land (of a region)”)

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??o?/

Noun

agro m (plural agros)

1. enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property
   • 1259, Andrés Martínez Salazar (ed.), Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI. A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 44:

     nos damos a isse Pedro Pedrez un agro que jaz sobrela egreia de Uillanoua en Seloure a chantar de pereyros et de mazeyras

     we give this Pedro Pérez a field that is over the church of Vilanova in Sillobre, for planting there pear and apple trees

2. countryside
3. primary sector

Derived terms

Related terms

• agra

References

• “agro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “agro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “agro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “agro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “agro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French ager, Italian agro and Spanish agro. In length from English agriculture and Russian ????????????? (agrikul?túra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ro/
• Hyphenation: ag?ro

Noun

agro (plural agri)

1. field: piece of ground

Derived terms

See also

• feldo

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?ro/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *acrus, *acrum, from Latin acer, acrem, from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). See also the doublet acre.

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agri, feminine plural agre)

1. sour, vinegary

Derived terms

• agramente
• agrodolce
• all'agro

Further reading

• agro¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros.

Noun

agro m (plural agri)

1. countryside around a town

Further reading

• agro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• argo, Argo
• roga

Ladino

Adjective

agro (Latin spelling, feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

1. sour

Noun

agro m (Latin spelling)

1. vinegar

Latin

Noun

agr?

1. dative singular of ager
2. ablative singular of ager

References

• agro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Adjective

agro

1. vocative singular masculine form of agrais
2. accusative singular masculine form of agrais
3. instrumental singular masculine form of agrais
4. genitive plural masculine form of agrais
5. vocative singular feminine form of agrais
6. accusative singular feminine form of agrais
7. instrumental singular feminine form of agrais
8. genitive plural feminine form of agrais

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin acrus, acra, acrum, from Latin acer, acris.

Adjective

agro

1. sour

Descendants

• Spanish: agro, agrio

Further reading

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1984) , “agrio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume A-Ca, Madrid: Gredos, ?ISBN, page 77

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??o/, [?a.???o]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ager, agrum, with first attestation in 1645. However, some dialects may have preserved it as an inherited term.

Noun

agro m (plural agros)

1. field (area of agriculture)

See also

• gleba

Etymology 2

From Old Spanish agro, in use until the 17th century.

Adjective

agro (feminine agra, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

1. Obsolete form of agrio.

Derived terms

• agriar
• agrura

References

Venetian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin root *acrus, *acrum, from Latin ?cer, acrem.

Adjective

agro m (feminine singular agra, masculine plural agri, feminine plural agre)

1. sharp, sour
2. acid